NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +4%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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